This is NOT like any other GTA game you have ever played!
User Rating: 9 | Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars DS
GTA:Chinatown wars is much better then GTA:Advance , in fact it might be one of the greatest GTA's ever. Now before you go reading this I have to say the game is NOT in a 2-D top down view like the older ones. This is more like a 2.5-D, though that isn't enough to make it a good game. You start off the game by coming into liberty city on a plane so you can deliver a sword to your uncle. But once you get off the plane you get jumped and ditched into a river. I don't want to tell you a lot about the story but its worth mentioning that all the cut scenes are shown in a "comic book" style with no voice acting. Now the game it self is Visually amazing by DS standards. It has a large 3-D world that is always running at a steady frame rate. Although, the music (good in its own right) has no vocal parts in the songs. Now some people might be thinking about the new touch screen Mini games and if they are very gimmicky. No they aren't , in fact they add a lot to the experience, because when you start up a car by hot wiring it, it feels awesome. Another thing that is great about this game is that the controls are the exact same mapping as on the console versions of GTA 4. The game also has a very in depth drug trading economics part to it. But it does seem to give you easy money early on in the game thus making the game a bit easier then its console cousins. Even though I speak highly of Chinatown wars that doesn't mean it doesn't have problems. Like if your driving fast down the city streets, you might see the ground be all grey then it has to load that area (about takes 2 seconds ). Maybe that's just me that happens to. Also sometimes the game seems to be too easy, only about a few missions I actually had to restart. But subtract the bad from the good and you have an amazing game on the DS that is a must buy.
